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Compassionate Friends announce upcoming meetings
The Compassionate Friends will host meetings for bereavement parents who have lost children of any age.
Meetings are held on the first Thursday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and the third Monday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the hospice building, 643 Teton Trail in Frankfort.
For more information, contact Kathy Wainscott at 502-517-6289.

The Anderson County Library will offer the following free classes in June and July.

Brian Ritchie, owner of Ritchie & Peach Funeral Home, never forgot the offer the business’ former owner made when he was just 13 years old.
Brian’s father had just died, and Mrs. Billy Huddleston, who along with her husband, owned Huddleston Funeral Home, saw something in young Brian and told him to contact her when he was older about a job.
“That was always on my mind,” says Brian. “While going to college in 1986, I began working on the weekends for the Huddlestons and have been in this business every since.”

Brenda Brooks, 16, won the title of Miss Lawrenceburg Fair and Horse Show 2013 on Monday.
Brooks will attend Anderson County High School as a junior this fall and will represent Lawrenceburg in the state pageant.
She said her mother, April Hensler, encourages her to be her best.
“She (my mother) told me to be confident and that smiles are the best makeup,” Brooks said.
After high school Brooks said she hopes to go to an Ivy League university to become a marine biologist or a lawyer.

Friends of Anderson Public Library will host a book sale on June 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Old Glensboro School, located on the Anderson County High School campus at the corner of 127 Bypass and US 62.
The organization is moving to a different location soon and wants to make the move lighter, according to the Friends of the Library press release.
The sale will include a variety of fiction, classics, westerns, science-fiction, biographies, self-help and motivational, war and history, decorating and cookbooks.

The Anderson County Library will offer the following free classes in July.
All classes are subject to cancellation, and class space is limited to five students. Students will use the library’s laptops.
Call the library at 839-6420 to sign up or contact Tami Elam at the library for more information.

The Anderson County Community of Promise met June 4 at the Board of Education training room to celebrate its 10-year anniversary of participating in the Community of Promise Initiative under the America’s Promise for Youth Alliance, according to a press release.
The program began in May 2003 and has continued to grow over the last 10 years, the press release said.